[B-Greek] The New International Greek Test Commentaries

Kevin W. Woodruff cierpke at prodigy.net
Wed Mar 9 16:20:17 EST 2005


Jimmy:

At some point, youa re going to want to pick up
Wallace's Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics. If you've
not gotten a copy of BDAG, let that be one of your
first purchases as well
Additionally, I would recommend the Word Biblical
commentary as well as the NIGTC, although you will
learn to grown into the NIGTC. Admittedly, the NIGTC
in the earlier volumes was not as good as the more
recent ones, but I really like George Knight on the
Pastorals

The Exegetical Summary series put out by SIL
<http://www.sil.org> as well as The Handbooks on the
Greek Text series published by Baylor University
Press. Currently Baylor have only done the Johannine
Epistles and Acts (Martin Culy has worked on both of
those)

Gingrich, F. Wilbur. Shorter Lexicon of the Greek New
Testament. 2nd ed. Revised by Frederick 
W. Danker. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,
1983. ISBN: 0226136132 

OR

Trenchard , Warren C. A Concise Dictionary of New
Testament Greek. Cambridge University 
Press, 2003. ISBN: 052181815X

Mounce, William D. Basics of Biblical Greek Vocabulary
Cards. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004. 
ISBN: 0310259878

Kubo, Sakae, ed.  A Reader's Greek-English Lexicon of
the New Testament. Grand Rapids: 
Zondervan, 1975. ISBN: 0310269202

Hildebrandt, Ted. Mastering New Testament Greek: An
Interactive Guide for Beginners. Grand 
Rapids: Baker, 2003.  ISBN: 0801027594

Gromacki, Robert. Biblical Greek Vocabulary Cards.
Springfield, Ohio: Visual Education , 1997 
ISBN: 1556370075
			
Lamerson, Samuel. English Grammar to Ace New Testament
Greek. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 
2004.  ISBN: 0310255341
				
Metzger, Bruce M. Lexical Aids for Students of New
Testament Greek. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: 
Baker, 1998. ISBN: 0801021804

Mounce, William D. Teknia Language Tools 3.3. Spokane,
Washington: 
Teknia Software, 2002.  Available from: 
<http://teknia.com/tlt/tltwin.html> (Windows)
<http://teknia.com/tlt/tltmac.html>  (Macintosh)

Mueller, Walter. Grammatical Aids for Students of New
Testament Greek. Grand Rapids: 
Eerdmans, 1972. ISBN: 0802814476
		
Pennington, Jonathan T. New Testament Greek
Vocabulary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001.
ISBN: 0310243823

Silzer, Peter James, and Thomas John Finley. How
Biblical Languages Work: A Student's Guide to 
Learning Greek and Hebrew. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2004.
 ISBN: 0825426448

Trenchard, Warren C. Complete Vocabulary Guide to the
Greek New Testament. Revised ed. 
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998. ISBN: 0310226953

Wilson, Mark. Mastering New Testament Greek Vocabulary
Through Semantic Domains. Grand 
Rapids: Kregel, 2002. ISBN: 0825441153

Black, David Alan. It’s Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to
Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek. 
Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998.

Wilson, Marvin R., and Chris Alex Vlachos. A Workbook
for New Testament Greek: Grammar 
and Exegesis in First John. Peabody, Massachusetts:
Hendrickson, 1998.

Carson, Donald A. Exegetical Fallacies. 2nd ed. Grand
Rapids: Baker, 1996. 128 pages

Fee, Gordon D. New Testament Exegesis. 3rd  ed. 
Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster/John 
Knox Press, 2002. 195 pages

Guthrie, George H., and J. Scott Duvall. Biblical
Greek Exegesis: A Graded Approach to 
Learning Intermediate and Advanced Greek. Grand
Rapids: Zondervan, 1998. 288 pages

Mounce, William D. “Pastoral Epistles,” in The Word
Biblical Commentary. Volume 46. 
Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 2000.

McKnight, Scot, ed. Introducing New Testament
Interpretation. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1989. 197 pages.

Schreiner, Thomas R. Interpreting the Pauline
Epistles. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1990. 167 pages.

Some of the earlier volumes of the NIGTC seemed to be
a litle more Reformed than the later ones. But that is
changing as men like Witherington start to contribute



Kevin



--- Eric Weiss <papaweiss1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> - - -
> 
> Hi all
>     I am just about finished with Dr Mounce's BB
> Greek, just 3 more chapters to go. Thank God I made
> it
> this far. Anyhow the reason I wanted to learn B
> Greek
> is for exegesis for study & sermon prep. I am going
> to
> continue with the Summer graded reader and then
> Mounce's 2nd year graded reader, good idea?
>     Also, I bought a few of the NIGTC's.. they seem
> to
>  me to be way to advanced for me, what is the
> purpose
> for these commentaries? Translation helps, or
> exegesis
> or what? How advanced should or does a person in NTG
> to use these commentaries to their fullest? My
> Pastor
> went through the course with me and I showed him the
> Galatians one, he didn't have it long, but said to
> me,
> "I couldn't get anything from that for sermon prep."
> I
> know he didn't spend much time with it, but he did
> take it home for a few days. Can you all help me
> with
> my questions? Can you rate them  as far as
> exegetical
> help resource, and are they all good? That is, the
> ones  that are finished so far. I have 1st & 2nd
> Cor,
> Hebrews, Galatians  & the Pastoral epistles. 
>    Also are they Reformed in Theology, or more
> neutral
> as far as that goes? Thanks for helping me, and for
> the persons who run this list!
> 
> Grace and  peace to you all, Jimmy Montesano
> 
> - - -
> 
> You might be better served at this point with the
> New
> International Commentary series, which keeps the
> Greek
> in the footnotes, though after you've had about
> 1-1/2
> years of Greek, you should be able to interact with
> the NIGT series, as well as with Word's
> commentaries,
> depending on how well you've learned your Greek. If
> you're learning on your own, it may take a bit
> longer,
> because you won't have a teacher's help. 
> 
> The Summer reader is good for Mounce students, or
> you
> can use Metzger's vocabulary book (Baker) to get
> your
> vocab to every word that occurs 20x or more (Mounce
> gets you to 50x; the Summer reader gets you to 20x;
> Metzger can get you down to 10x, though his word
> counts differ slightly from Trech's, another option
> -
> Metzger is slim and easy to carry). You really can't
> navigate much of the Greek New Testament well until
> you've learned every word that occurs 20x-25x.
> 
> The Graded Reader will be good, too, and it's keyed
> to
> Daniel Wallace's Greek Grammar Beyond The Basics, so
> you'll want to buy Wallace in conjunction with the
> Graded Reader.
> 
> I think NIGT commentaries are theologically
> conservative, but not necessarily reformed (just
> guessing).
> 
> Re: your pastor's remarks, it probably depends on
> how
> much he works with the Greek text. I find
> commentaries
> to be helpful for pointing out and discussing
> textual
> and exegetical and translation options, and also for
> giving background information. I read the Greek text
> and see something interesting or puzzling, and a
> good
> commentary can help me with my difficulty or
> validate
> whether what I think I'm seeing is really
> significant
> or even there. I think there are many, many sermons
> to
> be mined from the Greek text, but I'm not sure the
> NIGT or even the New International Commentary
> volumes
> are geared to sermon preparation. If so, it's more
> "behind the scenes," i.e., they help the
> teacher/preacher better know what the original text
> says, but don't always discuss how to bring a "word
> for today" from the text to the people in the pews.
> 
> Just some thoughts.
> 
> Eric S. Weiss
> 
> 
> 
> 
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